Haemaphysalis

Haemaphysalis

(hē'mă-fī'să-lis),

A genus of small, eyeless, inornate ticks. As larvae and nymphs, they are found chiefly on small mammals and birds; as adults, they are found on larger mammals and some birds. They are important as vectors of protozoa and viruses, (e.g., Kyasanur Forest disease virus).

[G. haima, blood, + physaleos, full of wind]

Haemaphysalis

/Hae·ma·phys·a·lis/ (he″mah-fis´ah-lis) a genus of hard-bodied ticks, species of which are important vectors of disease.

Haemaphysalis

(hĕm″ă-fĭs′ă-lĭs) [″ + physallis, bubble]

A genus of ticks that includes species that are vectors for tick-borne viral diseases including hemorrhagic fever.

Out of five suspected cases, a 63-year-old woman was found to be infected with the virus transmitted by one species of tick, the Haemaphysalis longicornis, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Discovery of the virus: GANV was first isolated from Haemaphysalis intermedia ticks collected from goats, suffering from lumbar paralysis from Orissa, India, during 1954-55 and named after the place of isolation (5).

US Army tick surveillance data from this area had been lacking, and the surveys resulted in substantial collections and information about an obscure and uncommonly collected and reported tick species, Haemaphysalis phasiana Saito, Hoogstraal, and Wassef.

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